喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈʌpˌbrɪŋɪŋ/教養；家教

    The way your parents look after you and teach you how to behave while you are growing up, and everything you learn at home from them during those years.

    示範例句 · Example

    Ren had a strict upbringing — homework before dinner, and lights out at nine.

    逐字任有一個嚴格的教養——晚餐前先寫功課，九點關燈。

    upbringing 講的是「你被爸媽帶大的方式」——他們怎麼照顧你、怎麼教你待人處事，這一整段在家裡受到的教養。可以想成：bring up 是爸媽做的動作（把小孩帶大），upbringing 就像那個動作留在孩子身上的樣子，所以句子的主詞是被帶大的那個人（She had a strict upbringing.），不是爸媽。它是單數或不可數，前面加形容詞時會有 a（a strict / happy / sheltered upbringing），但沒有 upbringings 這種複數。

    常見搭配

    • have a strict / happy / tough etc upbringing

      有嚴格／快樂／辛苦的家教

      to be raised in a particular way

      Sam had a happy upbringing in a house full of cousins.

    • a strict upbringing

      嚴格的家教

      one with a lot of rules to follow

      Her strict upbringing meant she was always home before dark.

    • a good upbringing

      好的家教

      one that teaches you to behave well and treat people kindly

      However good their upbringing, kids still make mistakes sometimes.

    • a sheltered upbringing

      被保護得很好的成長方式

      one in which you are protected from difficult things

      After such a sheltered upbringing, living alone was a big change for him.

    • a privileged upbringing

      優渥的成長環境

      one in which your family has money and advantages

      Despite his privileged upbringing, he works hard to understand other people's lives.

    • a middle-class upbringing

      中產家庭的成長方式

      one in a family that is neither rich nor poor

      She had a comfortable middle-class upbringing in a quiet town.

    • a religious upbringing

      有宗教信仰的家庭教養

      one in which your family's faith shapes daily life

      He speaks warmly about his religious upbringing.

    • somebody's upbringing

      某人被帶大的方式

      the way a particular person was raised

      Nothing in Aisha's upbringing had prepared her for the cold winters up north.

    意思相近

    parentingrearingnurtureraisingbackground

    意思相反

    neglect

core核心畫面

Grown-ups bringing a child up, year after year: not just feeding and housing, but everything the child takes in at home — how to speak to older people, what is rude, what money is for. The word looks back at that whole stretch of childhood and at the marks it left on the grown person.

一種想法是：把 up 和 bring 拆開來看——大人把一個小孩「往上帶」，一年一年帶到長大。這裡帶的不只是餵飽長高，還包括那些沒有人正式教、卻天天在家裡吸進去的東西：吃飯怎麼坐、對長輩怎麼講話、生氣的時候可以吵到什麼程度、錢是拿來省的還是拿來用的。所以 upbringing 的畫面不是某一堂課，而是童年整段時間裡，家庭一點一點把一個人「做出來」的那個過程，以及那個過程留在他身上的痕跡。也因為這樣，它幾乎只用來回頭講一個已經長大的人——你會說 he had a strict upbringing，不會拿它來講眼前這個三歲小孩正在發生的事。

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同家族的字

  • 動詞bring up

意思相近

parentingrearingnurtureraisingbackground

意思相反

neglect

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

upbringingnoun/ˈʌpˌbrɪŋɪŋ/

  • 1

    The traits acquired during one's childhood training

  • 2

    The raising or training of a child.

    • Through her upbringing, Mildred's father had carefully programmed her to expect very little from life.

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